I'm starting to think we got screwed more than any team in the nation due to teams paying recruits and we wouldn't.

You may well be right. We've lost great recruits like Perry, Monk, and Goodwin, and I now strongly suspect that we lost because we followed the rules, while the other guys cheated. The other coaches must have sized up Anderson as a chump for not cheating, and he endured so much unjust criticism here for never being able to land these kinds of guys. He never once complained, and he's getting the last laugh now.